I received an email from Ron Robins the other day, wondering whether I would share some information with the Financial Services Club community. Ron is an Englishman, now based in Canada, who promotes the idea of ethical investing and seems to have a slight concern over US behaviour. This posting was originally published on the…
OK, you’re all back from work and feeling the post-summertime holiday blues … what can I say? Not a lot. So, as it’s Tuesday and you’re probably pulling your hair out already. Breathe. Calm down. Now think about your company. Most of you probably work for a large business. An elephant of a company. So…
Set your alarms. Get up early. Celebrate a once in a century moment. Yes, tomorrow at six minutes past five or, to be more exact, at seven seconds past six minutes past five it will be: 05:06:07 on 8th September. Or, in other words: 05:06:07 08/09/10 [Sorry Americans, your day happened a month ago on…
I’ve used a video from Visa Europe to illustrate what real-time payments processing means in practice for a while now, and finally tracked it down on Brightcove: It’s a good video, tracking the journey of a payment from a Swedish bank customer using a mobile contactless phone in China. The payment travels through 32,000 of…
America has a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), thanks to the Dodd-Frank reforms. The CFPB is a bit like the FBI, but focused upon money. Who could possibly run the CFPB? They would need to be an Eliot Ness Untouchable sort of person. A big swinging heavyweight, who can shoot the baddies of the…
We are pleased to provide our eighth month of monitoring the MTF performances in European Equities trading, in partnership with Thomson Reuters Equity Market Share Reporter (EMSR). Market Share based upon Euro Value August 2010 July 2010 Source: Thomson Reuters Equity Market Share Reporter Market Share based upon Volume of Trading August 2010 July 2010…
Strongbow Cider has just launched a new ad in the UK. The original advert honours the workers who create value – such as the pork pie fillers of Melton Mowbray and the sofa deliverymen of the M4 corridor: The new one is slightly less complementary and is targeted at … bankers [click here for larger…
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